The hands-on look from a user perspective [http://maemo.org/news/planet-maemo/the_n900_from_a_community_perspective/] states that it has an accelerometer.
Unlike Android or WebOS, Maemo is starting to look like a very open linux environment. Be still my beating Maemo heart...};-) ===== The N900 from a Community Perspective Posted on 2009-09-02 12:13:27 EEST. As part of the official launch of Maemo 5 and the N900 at Nokia World 2009, I have been given a brief hands-on time on the N900, and now I can relate some of my impressions of the device and operating system as a tablet owner and maemo.org community member. The first thing you notice as a tablet owner is how small the new device is. The whole N900 doesn't seem much larger than the just the screen of my N800. My initial worry as a tablet user was that it it is too small. The general aesthetic, as I'm sure most of you have seen, is much different from the existing tablets. The surface of the device is smooth, shiny and black. The keyboard snaps out with a satisfactory “cluk” and then, the screen lights up. [...] The most convincing demo of the new device's capabilities is the included game, “Bounce Evolution”. The player rolls and hops a ball around a rich 3D world (with shining, rippling water, trees, butterflies, etc) by tilting and shaking the device. It is amazing to see the gaming potential of OpenGL ES 2 coupled with the accelerometer. I predict some groundbreaking games are going to come out for the N900. [...] Under the hood, the Linux is more up-to-date and even more fully-featured than previous versions of Maemo. As before, I could install sshfs and mount shares from my home server on the N900, but everything feels more “desktop” now. For example, inserting a kernel module is made easier by the inclusion of modprobe. The keyboard is missing some important command line characters, but you can access them by pressing the function key then the Ctrl key. This pops up an on-screen pallete that lets you choose from four rows of less-used characters, including the pipe, angle brackets, and tilde. The on-screen keyboard also has lots of extra characters. [...] ===== On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:13 PM, Ng Pheng Siong<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The specs on the site don't mention accelerator, but others say it has. >> If it has an accelerator I'm prepared to ditch my G1 for this. > > Doh! Of course I mean accelerometer. :-) -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
